Tail End Tuesday

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My tail-end photos and video for this Tuesday, June 25, 2024 show my Atlas O model (6671) of New Haven Railroad NE-6 steel caboose C-681 delivered in April 2003 at MSRP $69.95. New Haven’s NE-6 cabooses, road numbers C-635 to C-709, were built by International Car Company in 1947 and 1948.

MELGAR

An MTH special run

- walt

Rolling with the C&NW rear today.Happy TET all.   Full speed ahead and God speed. 

Just trying to keep with the idea of just cooling off!

When Vinnie saw the damaged trolley body arriving at the scrapyard, he immediately got on the phone and called his buddy Harry at the scrapyard. He wanted that body for a shack for his bait business. It wasn’t an easy task; the hook had to travel out of town on the local track. Then switch off to main two and then switch off to main one; to get close to Vinnie’s property . The unloading operation caused main one to be out of service. The dispatcher Kevin Quigley was not a happy camper, but a box of Havanas calmed him down.

@pennsyfan posted:

When Vinnie saw the damaged trolley body arriving at the scrapyard, he immediately got on the phone and called his buddy Harry at the scrapyard. He wanted that body for a shack for his bait business. It wasn’t an easy task; the hook had to travel out of town on the local track. Then switch off to main two and then switch off to main one; to get close to Vinnie’s property . The unloading operation caused main one to be out of service. The dispatcher Kevin Quigley was not a happy camper, but a box of Havanas calmed him down.

Bob, that’s a cool little scene you created. Nice touch.

Gene

CN Skytop

Wow, Tail End Tuesdays sure roll around, fast and fun to review. I hope everyone is staying cool and enjoying their trains. Happy Railroading Everyone

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!   " Men at Work."

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A Tale Of Two Ends for Tail End Tuesday

Big Blue is still ruling the rails on my intermodal layout so pictured for your enjoyment are two models of the Conrail N20 extended vision caboose.  Conrail rostered 10 of this class of caboose, inherited when the Reading RR was folded into Conrail.  These cabooses were manufactured by the International Car Company for the Reading in 1970 and went to Conrail in 1976 and were renumbered 22130-22139.

MTH Primer 20-91012 first appeared in the 1998 Vol 2 catalog for a retail price of $44.95 and is pictured on the left.  On the right is K-Line K613-1411 first appeared in the first edition of the 2000 catalog for $49.99.

Neither is a spot-on model of a N20 but each has some points that match the N20.  Both are close on length and width, but the K-line is a little tall.  The N20s originally had 3 windows on the side like the K-Line but over time windows were sealed over so one or two windows per side is prototypical so the MTH isn't wrong but there's no patch over the missing window.

I like the added detail on the K-Line, add on grab rails, brass radio antenna, bronze bathroom vent, furnished interior, a brakeman in the cupola, opening doors and really cool roof walk and ladders even though the N20s had none.

The end rails on the MTH version appear to be of prototypical design whereas the K-Line doesn't have roof supports on the corners.  Neither roof appears to be prototypical from pictures I've seen.  I thought I saw a picture that showed  one with a roof like the K-Line but I haven't been able to find that picture again.

One oddity with the MTH is the roof ladders without any roofwalks.

Both have interior lighting.  The MTH appears to be LED while the K-Line has the Streamlighting incandescent lighting and a smoke unit that I haven't used.

The MTH lanterns are just red lenses while the K-Line has add on lanterns with different lenses.

Have a good Tail End all!

Here's 2 rear ends

- walt

@walt rapp posted:

Here's 2 rear ends

- walt

What a set-up! But I have to keep my mouth shut or suffer the wrath of OGR!

  Here is a "tail end" from MPC in its somewhat earlier days, the Lionel #92271 M&SL caboose from a Service Station Special Set in 1978-1979.  This red-white-blue livery seems to be appropriate with the upcoming 4 July holiday.

Best Wishes

Don

P.S. - Sorry I am a day late, I was traveling all day yesterday.

My tail-end views for Tuesday July 2, 2024 show Boston & Maine Northeastern caboose #433, a Railking model (30-7740) delivered in December 2000 at MSRP $39.95, at the rear of a train on my 12’-by-8’ layout. In my opinion, #433 is an exceptional model. Just look at the rivet detail, the sprung trucks, and the graphics…

MELGAR

Happy T.E.T., that’s a great looking caboose Melgar!

My Tail Ends for this Tuesday are this PRR extended vision, smoking caboose from Lionel; and this beautiful PRR Observation Car. 🤔 I didn’t check the origin.

Have a good Tail End Tuesday

mine

- walt

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!!

GG1 consist running lite.

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my rears for this fine Tuesday!!

GG1 consist running lite.

I was able to see the second picture  by clicking the attachment. Glad that I did, nice shot.

Here is an Marx Sears ALLSTATE tank train, followed up with an ALLSTATE bay window caboose from 1958.

Happy Tuesday everyone.  Best Wishes, hope your upcoming Holiday turns out great!

Don

Railking; originally 5v, now 3v, courtesy of GRJ

Here's D&H wood-sheathed caboose #35908 that I had scratch built by Forum member Brother Love about 10 years ago.   It's still waiting its turn to be 3-rail scaled and weathered.

Lionel Train of the Century Skytop observation car.

Atlas dome obs

Tail End Tuesday… Another passenger train’s tail end.

One of my favorite Penn Central Cabooses is this MTH bay window. 

Here's my tail ends for this rather warm Tuesday! 7 rear-ends to be specific.

@WesternPacific2217 - I liked your post for Tuesday, I must admit it took me a moment to "get" your comment on the "7 rear ends" but I laughed when I finally got it!!

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@WesternPacific2217 - I liked your post for Tuesday, I must admit it took me a moment to "get" your comment on the "7 rear ends" but I laughed when I finally got it!!

Best Wishes

Don

There were no Butts about it. They were there.

Here's a useful rear end

- walt

Well, I can hardly believe that I am the first to post on this T.E.T. but it looks that way this week.  This is another 1950's or early 1960's tin toy from Japan.  This era was full of marvelous lithographed tin toys from that country.  A few years later this all migrated to China and the quality declined severely.  This is from the maker TN of Japan and is an interesting train.  It is a "cable follower".  It came with a significant length of plastic wrapped metallic cable that you laid on the floor or other flat surface in whatever pattern you wished.  The loco and car then followed the cable around the pattern.

Anyway that is my "tail end" for this week.  Hope others post sometime today.

Here is a look at the entire "train" one locomotive and one passenger car.  Note the detail lithographed on the boiler of the locomotive and even the hubs of the drive wheels.

Best Wishes, hope your week is going well.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well, I can hardly believe that I am the first to post on this T.E.T. but it looks that way this week.  This is another 1950's or early 1960's tin toy from Japan.  This era was full of marvelous lithographed tin toys from that country.  A few years later this all migrated to China and the quality declined severely.  This is from the maker TN of Japan and is an interesting train.  It is a "cable follower".  It came with a significant length of plastic wrapped metallic cable that you laid on the floor or other flat surface in whatever pattern you wished.  The loco and car then followed the cable around the pattern.

Anyway that is my "tail end" for this week.  Hope others post sometime today.

Here is a look at the entire "train" one locomotive and one passenger car.  Note the detail lithographed on the boiler of the locomotive and even the hubs of the drive wheels.

Best Wishes, hope your week is going well.

Don

They were on the leading edge! Today you can lay in a wire on your layout and have vehicles follow it around without track.

Railking

For this Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Norfolk & Western caboose #562748 (MTH 20-91017) is running on my 10’-by-5’ layout at the tail-end of a freight train pulled by N&W steam locomotive #244, also by MTH (30-1111-1).

MELGAR

Here's my rear for this fine Tuesday!   ... Brakeman Roscoe Bartley rides the rear deck of a VO1000 as the locomotive has just passed a flatcar showing the rear of a Caterpillar grader.  

My MTH Union Pacific bobber caboose arrived and is now pals with my Doodlebug - two fun names together!

For this Tail End Tuesday here are two famous name trains in an unlikely setting. Sharing adjacent main lines. The Blue Comet and the Powhatan Arrow.

Have a good Humid TET all!